One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.